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Article: The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- July 1, 1996
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The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower By Paul B. Pixton. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume LXIV] (Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1995. Pp. xv, 543. $135.00.)
The Fourth Lateranum was the most important medieval council. Its seventy canons on such subjects as transubstantiation, the Jews, marriage, and auricular confession have shaped Western culture. The conciliar decrees were to be executed by annual provincial and diocesan synods, episcopal visitations, and triennial general chapters of regulars. Paul B. Pixton examines the implementation of its edicts in Germany before the First Council of ...